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WASHINGTON—You have a creative thesis. You ride the Metro to work in Washington, D.C. These are not incompatible facts. You have read about people who toiled in cubicles for years, suffered long commutes, and emerged from the chrysalis of public transportation into the butterfly fulfillment of authordom, having penned some Great American Novel during the hellish trips. Since during the course of your short life you have had no success following the diligent examples of others, of course this is the time...
...Metro is great for people-watching. This must be at least as good for aspiring literary types as wearing black and smoking. I decide to try it, because writing a Great American Novel by hand on the train is about as intelligent as George W. Bush making political pronouncements from the driver’s seat of his vacation golf cart. (Which he did this week. Wish it were the only place he’s in control...
...Metro, no longer Intellectual Haven, becomes instead Lessons in Human Nature. Which is not as far from Large Fish Tank as I would like. It’s about as social, about as intelligent and about as clean...
...French music-video ace Chris Nahon to direct and chose Karyo, the angular menacer who shone in Nikita, to play the spuming villain. The film's other star is Paris. Like any self-respecting thriller set in a famous city, Dragon stages action scenes in many local landmarks: the MEtro, a bateau mouche, the gorgeous Gare de l'Est, the Regina Hotel and the Paris sewers...
...Post was the first thing I read every day until I left for college. Half the fights my brother and I had growing up were over who got to read the Sports and Style sections first. We clamored over Metro, debated national and international news, spent Sunday mornings lingering over comics and Book World. As I grew older and began writing myself, I made it a ritual to read every word, every day. When I went to college, I found myself missing the heft and wit of this capital newspaper. By that time, like any soul who lived and breathed...